Pinky (1949)
"The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly in love!"

Title: Pinky
Original Title: Pinky
Release Date: 1949-09-28
Status: Released
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 44 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Cast

Jeanne Crain
Patricia "Pinky" Johnson

Ethel Barrymore
Miss Em

Ethel Waters
Dicey Johnson

William Lundigan
Dr. Thomas Adams

Basil Ruysdael
Judge Walker

Kenny Washington
Dr. Canady

Nina Mae McKinney
Rozelia

Griff Barnett
Dr. Joe McGill

Frederick O'Neal
Jake Walters

Evelyn Varden
Melba Wooley